With a decent story for Obama to tell, gay editors from Dallas to San Francisco to Boston have been left wondering why Obama doesn’t take it directly to their publications, as Clinton has done with increasing frequency since Super Tuesday. “It doesn’t seem to match what he says at these other events,” said Cynthia Laird, news editor at the Bay Area Reporter in San Francisco. “It is very disappointing to me.” The reason for Obama’s distance is unclear. In keeping with his campaign’s managed approach to the media in general, Obama has communicated with the gay press on his own terms, placing ads in local gay newspapers and writing op-eds.
Obama has not completely shut out the gay press. Three days after being blasted in the Philadelphia Gay News, Obama conducted his second interview of the presidential campaign with a gay news magazine with a national audience, The Advocate. Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said it was not done in response to Philadelphia Gay News dustup. The Advocate, which has not yet posted the interview, did not respond to a request for comment.
Obama's campaign responds to GLBT press with this:
“Rather than segmenting the electorate and targeting each demographic group separately, our campaign has focused on uniting disparate groups and communicating with the widest range of Americans possible,”
Unless you are from small town Pennsylvania, that is.
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